Introduces nether basalt, intended as a valuable "goal" material in the game: If you want to obtain basalt then rather than dig to -1024, you first must get the nether, then you must journey the nether to locate an entrance to the mantle, then navigate the mantle down to the magma oceans, and either cross the magma oceans to reach the columns of basalt, or cool some of the lava crust along the shore.
Basalt can be crafted into hewn basalt, which can be crafted into chiselled basalt. All of these are explosion proof and intended to provide alternatives to obsidian for mods needing a portalstone which requires an adventure to obtain, or to be ingredients unlocking a tech-tree branch or crafting recipes where obtaining ingredients should involve a challenge in the game.
A big change from the video is the whole mantle used to be made of basalt, it's now made of "Deep Netherrack" with basalt being a much darker material that's only obtainable by reaching the magma ocean.
Changes other than the mantle:
chatcomment nether_whereami, a debug aid for knowing which perlin-noise region you are in
Nether ores no longer obtainable on the ceiling
Move crafts into crafts.lua
Add steam to lava cooling, and play bubbling lava upon death by lava
Add cracked netherbrick - a decorative node which can only be obtained from dungeons or structures
I encourage someone to improve or replace the cracked netherbrick texture. For copyright purposes it's currently a derivative work (by me, 2020) from nether_brick.png, which is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by PilzAdam, so it can fall under the "All other media" PilzAdam's credit in readme.md rather than need its own entry.
Ideas, names, lore, criticism, review etc. encouraged.
My development branch is here, but you probably don't need to see that sausage factory.
Adds a magma oceans region to the nether outside the existing nether caverns, which can be reached via tunnels.
An early video of the mantle is here, it gives the general gist but many things have changed:
An earlier explanation of how the perlin noise determines these regions
Introduces nether basalt, intended as a valuable "goal" material in the game: If you want to obtain basalt then rather than dig to -1024, you first must get the nether, then you must journey the nether to locate an entrance to the mantle, then navigate the mantle down to the magma oceans, and either cross the magma oceans to reach the columns of basalt, or cool some of the lava crust along the shore.
Basalt can be crafted into hewn basalt, which can be crafted into chiselled basalt. All of these are explosion proof and intended to provide alternatives to obsidian for mods needing a portalstone which requires an adventure to obtain, or to be ingredients unlocking a tech-tree branch or crafting recipes where obtaining ingredients should involve a challenge in the game.
A big change from the video is the whole mantle used to be made of basalt, it's now made of "Deep Netherrack" with basalt being a much darker material that's only obtainable by reaching the magma ocean.
Changes other than the mantle:
Ideas, names, lore, criticism, review etc. encouraged.
My development branch is here, but you probably don't need to see that sausage factory.
A small entrance to the mantle: